The Licks Tour was a worldwide concert tour undertaken by the Rolling Stones during 2002 and 2003, in support of their 40th anniversary compilation album Forty Licks. The tour grossed over $300 million, becoming the second-highest-grossing tour at that time, behind their own Voodoo Lounge Tour of 1994–1995."Stones tour licks up $300m". BBC News. Retrieved 22 November 2014 The tour yielded the releases Live Licks in 2004 from four different nights, Licked Live in NYC in 2022 from the January 18 show of 2003, and Live at the Wiltern in 2024 from the November 4 show of 2002.

Background The itinerary continued the Rolling Stones' practice of mixing theatre, arena, and stadium venues. With little new music to promote, set lists were dynamic and featured a total of 80 different songs.

The production was designed by Mark Fisher, Charlie Watts, Mick Jagger, and Patrick Woodroffe. The design included a wide digital print created by Jeff Koons and film sequences directed by Willie Williams. During the song "Honky Tonk Women", an animated video was shown of a topless woman riding the famous Rolling Stones Tongue logo before being devoured.

Planned dates in East Asia and the final date of the tour were cancelled in response to the SARS outbreak of 2002–2003. Additionally, because Toronto, Ontario, Canada was also affected, the Rolling Stones headlined the Molson Canadian Rocks for Toronto concert on 30 July 2003 to help the city recover from the effects of the epidemic. It was attended by an estimated 490,000 people. Finally, on 7–9 November 2003, the band played its first ever concerts in Hong Kong, as part of the Harbour Fest celebration. The tour was sponsored by E-Trade.

In Chicago, U2 frontman Bono joined the Stones for "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" while Dr. John guested on piano during "I Just Want to Make Love to You."

In January, American cable network HBO broadcast a concert from Madison Square Garden in New York.

In Sydney, Leipzig, Hockenheim, Oberhausen and Toronto, Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC played "Rock Me Baby" with the Rolling Stones. The Leipzig performance can be found on disc 2 of AC/DC's Plug Me In, while the Toronto performance was included in the Toronto Rocks DVD.

Set list Typical set list "Brown Sugar" "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)" "Start Me Up" "Don't Stop" "Tumbling Dice" "Angie" "You Can't Always Get What You Want" "Midnight Rambler" "Monkey Man" "Love Train" "Little Queenie" "Slipping Away" "Happy" "Sympathy for the Devil" "You Got Me Rocking" "When the Whip Comes Down" "Miss You" "Gimme Shelter" "Honky Tonk Women" "Street Fighting Man" "Jumpin' Jack Flash" Encore "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Set list on 4 November 2002 at Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, CA "Jumpin' Jack Flash" "Live with Me" "Neighbours" "Hand of Fate" "No Expectations" "Beast of Burden" "Stray Cat Blues" "Dance (Pt. 1)" "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love" (with Solomon Burke) "That's How Strong My Love Is" "Going to a Go-Go" "Thru and Thru" "You Don't Have to Mean It" "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" "Rock Me Baby" "Bitch" "Honky Tonk Women" "Start Me Up" "Brown Sugar" Encore "Tumbling Dice"

Tour dates + List of 2002 concerts Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) 16 August 2002 Toronto Canada Palais Royale Danko Jones 3 September 2002 Boston United States FleetCenter The Pretenders 5 September 2002 Foxboro Gillette Stadium 8 September 2002 Boston Orpheum Theatre Buddy Guy 10 September 2002 Chicago United Center The Pretenders 13 September 2002 Comiskey Park 16 September 2002 Aragon Ballroom Dr. John 18 September 2002 Philadelphia Veterans Stadium The Pretenders 20 September 2002 First Union Center 22 September 2002 Upper Darby Tower Theater 26 September 2002 New York City Madison Square Garden The Pretenders 28 September 2002 East Rutherford Giants Stadium 30 September 2002 New York City Roseland Ballroom Jonny Lang 4 October 2002 Landover FedExField The Strokes 5 October 2002 Hartford Hartford Civic Center 12 October 2002 Detroit Ford Field No Doubt 14 October 2002 Cleveland Gund Arena Elvis Costello 16 October 2002 Toronto Canada Air Canada Centre The White Stripes 18 October 2002 SkyDome No Doubt 20 October 2002 Columbus United States Nationwide Arena The White Stripes 22 October 2002 Sunrise Office Depot Center Shaggy 23 October 2002 Miami American Airlines Arena 26 October 2002 Atlanta Turner Field No Doubt 31 October 2002 Los Angeles Staples Center Sheryl Crow 2 November 2002 Anaheim Edison International Field 4 November 2002 Los Angeles Wiltern Theatre Solomon Burke 6 November 2002 Tacoma Tacoma Dome Sheryl Crow 8 November 2002 San Francisco Pacific Bell Park 9 November 2002 12 November 2002 Oakland The Arena in Oakland 14 November 2002 San Diego San Diego Sports Arena 16 November 2002 Las Vegas The Joint(Private show hosted by David Bonderman – no public admission) John Mellencamp 23 November 2002 San Antonio SBC Center Lifehouse 25 November 2002 Nashville Gaylord Entertainment Center 29 November 2002 Las Vegas The Joint Solomon Burke 30 November 2002 MGM Grand Garden Arena Lifehouse

+ List of 2003 concerts Date City Country Venue Opening act(s) 8 January 2003 Montreal Canada Bell Centre Les Respectables 10 January 2003 Pittsburgh United States Mellon Arena Ryan Adams 12 January 2003 Boston FleetCenter 16 January 2003 New York City Madison Square Garden 18 January 2003 Ryan Adams (The Stones broadcast live on HBO Tonight) 21 January 2003 Chicago United Center Ryan Adams 22 January 2003 25 January 2003 Houston Reliant Stadium 28 January 2003 Oklahoma City Ford Center 30 January 2003 Phoenix America West Arena Jonny Lang 1 February 2003 Denver Pepsi Center 4 February 2003 San Jose HP Pavilion at San Jose Susan Tedeschi 6 February 2003 Los Angeles Staples Center 8 February 2003 Las Vegas MGM Grand Garden Arena 18 February 2003 Sydney Australia Enmore Theatre Jet 20 February 2003 Sydney Super Dome 22 February 2003 25 February 2003 Melbourne Rod Laver Arena 27 February 2003 1 March 2003 4 March 2003 Brisbane Brisbane Entertainment Centre rowspan="2" 5 March 2003 10 March 2003 Tokyo Japan Nippon Budokan rowspan="10" 12 March 2003 Yokohama Yokohama Arena 15 March 2003 Tokyo Tokyo Dome 16 March 2003 20 March 2003 Osaka Osaka Dome 21 March 2003 24 March 2003 Singapore Singapore Indoor Stadium 26 March 2003 4 April 2003 Bangalore India Palace Grounds 7 April 2003 Mumbai Brabourne Stadium 4 June 2003 Munich Germany Olympiahalle The Cranberries 6 June 2003 Olympiastadion 8 June 2003 Circus Krone Bau 10 June 2003 Milan Italy Stadio Giuseppe Meazza The Cranberries 13 June 2003 Oberhausen Germany O-Vision Zukunftspark AC/DCThe Cranberries 15 June 2003 Berlin Olympiastadion The Cranberries 18 June 2003 Vienna Austria Ernst Happel Stadion The Cranberries 20 June 2003 Leipzig Germany Festwiese AC/DC 22 June 2003 Hockenheim Hockenheimring AC/DCThe Pretenders 25 June 2003 Bilbao Spain Estadio San Mames rowspan="8" 27 June 2003 Madrid Estadio Vicente Calderón 29 June 2003 Barcelona Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc 5 July 2003 Marseille France Stade Vélodrome 7 July 2003 Paris Palais omnisports de Paris-Bercy 9 July 2003 Saint-Denis Stade de France 11 July 2003 Paris L’Olympia 13 July 2003 Copenhagen Denmark Parken Stadium 16 July 2003 Helsinki Finland Helsinki Olympic Stadium ZZ TopThe Hellacopters 18 July 2003 Stockholm Sweden Stockholm Olympic Stadium The Hives 20 July 2003 Stockholm Globe Arena rowspan="3" 22 July 2003 Cirkus 24 July 2003 Hamburg Germany AOL-Arena 27 July 2003 Prague Czech Republic Letná BrainstormOlympic 30 July 2003 Toronto Canada SARSstock ConcertDownsview Park 8 August 2003 Hanover Germany EXPO-Gelaende Messe Ost rowspan="23" 11 August 2003 Rotterdam Netherlands Feijenoord Stadion 13 August 2003 15 August 2003 Rotterdam Ahoy 16 August 2003 Utrecht Muziekcentrum Vredenburg 19 August 2003 Amsterdam Amsterdam ArenA 24 August 2003 London England Twickenham Stadium 27 August 2003 Astoria 29 August 2003 Wembley Arena 1 September 2003 Glasgow Scotland Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre 3 September 2003 5 September 2003 Manchester England Manchester Evening News Arena 7 September 2003 Werchter Belgium Rock Werchter 9 September 2003 Dublin Ireland Point Theatre 11 September 2003 13 September 2003 London England Wembley Arena 15 September 2003 20 September 2003 Twickenham Stadium 22 September 2003 Amsterdam Netherlands Amsterdam ArenA 25 September 2003 Benidorm Spain Estadio Municipal Foietes 27 September 2003 Coimbra Portugal Estádio Cidade de Coimbra 29 September 2003 Zaragoza Spain Feria de Muestras 2 October 2003 Zürich Switzerland Letzigrund Stadion 7 November 2003 Hong KongTamar Festival Site rowspan="2" 9 November 2003

Personnel The Rolling Stones Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitars, harmonica, additional keyboards Keith Richards – rhythm guitar, backing vocals Ronnie Wood – lead guitar Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians Darryl Jones – bass Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals Bobby Keys – saxophone Tim Ries – saxophone Michael Davis– trombone Kent Smith – trumpet Lisa Fischer – backing vocals Bernard Fowler – backing vocals Blondie Chaplin – backing vocals, additional guitar

See also List of The Rolling Stones concert tours List of highest grossing concert tours List of most-attended concert tours

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